The Hardware Inside Your Network Device

I’ve spent a lot of time researching the hardware and technology that goes inside switches and routers. In part this is because I’m in the early stages of a book on White Box Networking where I needed to be able to put together information about the technology but really because software can only deliver what hardware can offer.

As part of the research I started a podcast series and roped in John Harrington aka The Network Sherpa and Simon Chatterjee who does the design of this hardware as a day job. We have published two shows and there is another one to come. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from listeners the first show, far more than normal and this will be a topic for future shows.

As always, finding people who have permission to speak and knowledgeable remains a challenge. If you would like to talk about an aspect of networking silicon, please get in touch so we get more content out to the audience.

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p>I haven’t progressed the book as far as I’d like due to heavy consulting and advisory commitments with my clients but there is a big update shortly.

About Greg Ferro

Human Infrastructure for Data Networks. 25 year survivor of Corporate IT in many verticals, tens of employers working on a wide range of networking solutions and products.

Host of the Packet Pushers Podcast on data networking at http://packetpushers.net- now the largest networking podcast on the Internet.